From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
Cc: 27982@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 20:50:29 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83378i9nrv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86bmn6o4tr.fsf@members.fsf.org> (message from Nicolas Richard on Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:18:24 +0200)
> From: Nicolas Richard <youngfrog@members.fsf.org>
> Cc: 27982@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 14:18:24 +0200
>
> (let ((dirname current-directory))
> (format "%s versus %s"
> (directory-file-name (file-name-directory dirname))
> (expand-file-name ".." dirname)))
> => "/home/youngfrog versus /home"
> => Effect is clearly different.
Crystal ball says that current-directory (which you probably meant to
be default-directory instead) ends in a slash, in which case remove
it, and the 2 results will match.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-08-23 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-08-06 11:38 bug#27982: 25.1.50; expand-file-name docstring on how to traverse the filesystem Nicolas Richard
2017-08-06 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-23 12:18 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-08-23 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-08-23 19:18 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-08-24 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-08-30 15:43 ` Nicolas Richard
2017-09-02 9:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
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